The smoke and dust from the violent explosion had yet to fully clear, and scorching shock waves still raged.
Both Konan in the air and the Six Paths of Pain on the ground kept their senses firmly locked on the center of the explosion, waiting for the outcome.
Yet the first attack came not from within the smoke, but as a streak of blood-red lightning, laden with towering fury and chilling killing intent, tearing through the sky straight toward Konan high above!
"You-you're asking to die!!!"
A female voice erupted with volcanic rage!
Along with that voice came an enormous Susanoo sword over fifty meters long, formed from pure crimson chakra and wreathed in the undying flames of Amaterasu. Like a spear of judgment, it thrust straight toward Konan's "angel" form at a terrifying speed beyond the sound barrier!
It was Uchiha Hikari!
The moment she saw Konan ambush Naruto with a dense barrage of explosive tags, uncontrollable fury shattered her outward calm!
Without the slightest hesitation, the wings of the Perfect Susanoo Uchiha Hikari had conjured in an instant gave a fierce beat!
Those chakra wings, burning with blood-red flames, unleashed astonishing thrust, propelling the enormous Susanoo like a crimson comet across hundreds of meters in an instant and straight into the main battlefield!
At the same time, the giant sword in Susanoo's hand had already thrust toward Konan with the power to cleave through anything!
The strike was fast, vicious, and precise! It brimmed with Hikari's fury at Konan.
Facing this sudden assault, Konan's pupils contracted slightly, but there was no panic on her face.
She seemed to have anticipated the Uchiha's forceful intervention-or perhaps her fighting style was simply that flexible.
Just as Susanoo's sword thrust toward her.
Konan's body, along with her pure white wings, instantly